Preserved Wook is an oldtime New England railway engineman who calls to life again the history & technology not only of the steam locomotive in the LAST Steam Age of the Old Atlantic West, but of many a wonderful way of getting around in the World, in a better time when travel indeed was for the few…and the very few!

Hudson Engines

My boyhood Lionel model train set was pulled by Lionel Hudson 2055, and a remarkably lifelike engine it was. There were white tablets to be dropped down the smokestack onto an electrical element, that yielded a fine cloud of smoke puffs as the train ran round the tracks. Also, in the bottom of the tender, an electrically operated whistle duplicated the sound of a steam locomotive horn with eerie verisimiltude. It was an accurate model in many ways, right down to the casting details.